[lug] Redhat NFS installs: Substitute http?

[Nate Duehr]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:58, D. Stimits wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> > Something I ran into doing this was that RH was looking for all of the
> > files in the same directory structure, making only the stuff on the
> > first CD usable unless you mounted the CD's and made a file structure
> > that mimics the CD with all three CD's RPM packages in it.
> >
> > Meaning that mounting three ISO images in loopback mode didn't/wouldn't
> > work... unless something has changed.  The installer would only use the
> > stuff from the first location, i.e. the first CD.
> 
> 
> This is the part I was afraid of. In a way, it seems like there is a 
> need for an overlay filesystem. I think I'll play with the suggestions 
> from Ed though, maybe I can figure something out. If not, I'll have to 
> transfer the images to a CD burner on a remote windows machine (and the 
> cd burner software on it is terrible). Or maybe add NFS support, which 
> is possible, but very undesirable just for an install.

Tom's note about symlinks would certainly work... hopefully you saw that
one!

Nate